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What a great write up. Wish you were getting more interest. If swimming happened in the air instead of where we can't see it, it would be more popular like Track and Field. It's really no different fundamentally. What I know is that the swimmers are athletic studs. Period. Thank you for your coverage. It's a great sport for Cal to excel at given all the CA swim talent.

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Yeah, unfortunately, this meet was on ESPN+ (it's usually on an ESPN channel you can actually find on TV). I will say this about the athletic studs bit you added: some of Cal's swimmers are physical giants. I definitely don't have the statistics on this, but the Bears could have one of the tallest average heights of NCAA swim teams (you could see a number of the Cal guys just towering over others on the podiums even when you account for the step heigh differences on the podiums). They have 5 guys listed at 6'7 or taller, and another 7 in that 6'4-6'7 range. Height (size in general) in swimming is an interesting question because "more" isn't necessarily better (it's not necessarily worse either).

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